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The secretaries were not at all pleased by a list of "ten commandments" drawn up by a panel of businessmen. Samples: "Keep the tired businessman's pills straight. Dress with decorum, not decollete; the boss wants to keep his mind on his work. Correct the boss's grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pill for the Boss | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

In its current issue, LIFE reports on the ideas that went round & round. Samples: ¶Creativeness in Hollywood is stifled by U.S. theater owners, who control the industry, reap most of its profits, and want nothing from it but, in Mankiewicz's phrase, "400 items of salable merchandise every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Supply & Demand | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Pravda's Unhappy. The real trick is not figuring out what the censor will dislike, but what ordinary Russians will like. Amerika's staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Voice of Amerika | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Realistic Tears. Harold Wilson last week was in the thick of Britain's biggest, bravest dollar-export drive to date. At the British Industries Fair (in London's Olympia and Earl's Court arenas, and in Birmingham's Castle Bromwich), $40 million worth of goods from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westward Ho! for $ $ $ | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Other canny Stratfordians will also cash in. Just inside the Merry Wives Gift Shoppe is inscribed: "Make Bold With Your Money-Merry Wives of Windsor" This blunt advice* from the best source prompts thousands of tourists to buy knickknacks ranging from ashtrays to souvenir pillows stamped "Stratford," "Avon" or "Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bard Clicks in Sticks | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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